{"id":4435,"date":"2015-06-09T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=4435"},"modified":"2015-06-09T16:14:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T15:14:17","slug":"surrey-buses-strike-action-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=4435","title":{"rendered":"Surrey buses: strike action suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Over 100 bus workers working for Abellio Surrey have suspended strike action following a breakthrough in talks at the conciliation service Acas, Unite announced today (June 9).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe drivers had been threatening to take strike action on June 11, 12, 15 and 16 over unilateral moves by Abellio Surrey to tear up a two-year agreement covering pay, terms and conditions that was signed in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nFollowing talks at Acas the company has now agreed to honour the original agreement and withdraw the imposition of a new lower starter rate of \u00c2\u01419.46, with no pay progression.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe agreement now ensures a new starter rate of \u00c2\u014111.11 and progression to the normal pay rate of \u00c2\u014111.90 per hour after one year and six months service.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe are pleased that the company has committed to honour its original agreement and taken a step back from imposing new lower starter rates,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite regional officer Dave Weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bStrike action has been suspended as a result and we will be consulting with members on whether to accept or reject the deal reached at Acas.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 100 bus workers working for Abellio Surrey have suspended strike action following a breakthrough in talks at the conciliation service Acas, Unite announced today (June 9). &nbsp; The drivers had been threatening to take strike action on June 11, 12, 15 and 16 over unilateral moves by Abellio Surrey to tear up a two-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[211],"wps_subtitle":"Abellio Surrey to honour original agreement","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4440,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions\/4440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}